Olatunji Adetokunboh, PhD

Research Fellow

Research theme: Optimising Health Systems

Olatunji was a Researcher/National Public Health Liaison at SACEMA. Prior to joining SACEMA, he worked as Technical Advisor and Manager for various HIV and Reproductive Health projects in South Africa and Nigeria. He also worked with the Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council and Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Stellenbosch University.

Olatunji is a medical doctor with masters and doctoral degrees in clinical epidemiology and epidemiology respectively. His research focuses on evidence synthesis and multilevel modelling approaches to infectious disease epidemiology, with special interest in vaccine-preventable diseases and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4608-3951

Recent publications

Provision of HIV prevention and care services to farmworkers in sub-Saharan African countries
Mlangeni N, Adetokunboh OO, Lembani M, Maloltle M, Ngah V, Nyasulu PS

Tropical Medicine and International Health

(2023)

https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13922
Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries
Sbarra AN, Rolfe S, Nguyen JQ, Earl L, Galles NC, Marks A, Abbas KM, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Abbastabar H, Abd-Allah F, Abdelalim A, Abdollahi M, Abegaz KH, Abiy HAA, Abolhassani H, Abreu LG, Abrigo MRM, Abushouk AI, Accrombessi MMK, Adabi M, Adebayo OM, Adekanmbi V, Adetokunboh OO, et al

Nature

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03043-4
Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Paulson KR, Kamath AM, Alam T, Bienhoff K, Abady GG, Abbas J, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Adetokunboh OO, et al

The Lancet

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01207-1
Missed opportunities for vaccination in Africa
Adetokunboh OO, JulianaIwu-Jaja CC, Nnaji CA, Ndwandwe D

Current Opinion in Immunology

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coi.2021.05.002
Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980 – 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1
Galles NC, Liu PY, Updike RL, Fullman N, Nguyen JQ, Rolfe S, Sbarra AN, Schipp MF, Marks A, Abady GG, Abbas KM, Abbasi SW, Abbastabar H, Abd-Allah F, Abdoli A, Abolhassani H, Abosetugn AE, Adabi M, Adamu AA, Adetokunboh OO, Adnani QES, et al

The Lancet

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00984-3
Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning
Cromwell EA, Osborne JCP, Unnasch TR, Basáñez M, Gass KM, Barbre KA, Hill E, Johnson KB, Donkers KM, Shirude S, Schmidt CA, Adekanmbi V, Adetokunboh OO, et al

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008824
African based researchers’ output on models for the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and public health interventions: A scoping review
Adetokunboh OO, Mthombothi ZE, Dominic EM, Djomba-Njankou S, Pulliam JRC

PLoS One

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250086
Effect of community-based interventions targeting female sex workers along the HIV care cascade in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Atuhaire L, Adetokunboh OO, Shumba CS, Nyasulu PS

Systematic Reviews

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01688-4
The impact of rubella vaccine introduction on rubella infection and congenital rubella syndrome: a systematic review of mathematical modelling studies
Motaze NV, Mthombothi ZE, Adetokunboh OO, Hazelbag CM, Saldarriaga EM, Mbuagbaw L, Wiysonge CS

Vaccine

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9020084
Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17
Deshpande A, Miller-Petrie MK, Lindstedt PA, Baumann MM, Johnson KB, Blacker BF, Abbastabar H, Abd-Allah F, Abdelalim A, Abdollahpour I, Abegaz KH, Adetokunboh OO, et al

The Lancet Global Health

(2020)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30278-3